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Relief for Compulsive Command-S Savers

Wednesday, February 27th, 2019

Raise your hand if you, or somebody you love, still presses Command-S constantly while editing text, or really, working with any content in any app on your Mac. Those of us who have been using computers for a long time remember a day when, if you didn’t remember to save, then you might lose everything. […]

The Future of Blogger and MarsEdit

Wednesday, February 13th, 2019

I have bad news for MarsEdit users who publish to Blogger: Google is shutting down the Picasa Web Albums API, and MarsEdit will no longer be able to upload images to Blogger/Blogspot blogs. I had anticipated being able to switch to the Google Photos API, and put a substantial amount of working into transitioning to […]

WordPress 5.0, Gutenberg, and MarsEdit

Thursday, December 6th, 2018

Congratulations to the open source WordPress team on the release of WordPress 5.0: Bebo. Although WordPress’s versioning scheme doesn’t place significance on the “round number” versions, this update happens to include a major rethinking of the default web-based WordPress editor, which they call “Gutenberg.” What’s the Big Deal? The fundamental change in WordPress 5.0 is […]

The Future for Tumblr and MarsEdit

Monday, April 23rd, 2018

MarsEdit’s history with Tumblr has been long and bittersweet. Starting with a December, 2008 post in which I encouraged Tumblr to add fundamental support for apps like MarsEdit to their API: There are relatively simple changes that Tumblr can make to their API to facilitate an acceptable user experience not only from MarsEdit, but from […]